Academic discourse has always been the focus of many linguists, especially those who have been involved with English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and discourse analysis. Persuasion, as part of rhetorical structure of academic writing, is partly achieved by employing modality markers.  Adopting a descriptive design, the present study was carried out to compare the use of modality markers in terms...

in this research azeri negative sentences are scrutinized with a focus on negative concord item (nci) s. linguists such asenç (1998), kornfilt (1997) and progovac (2005) assert that turkish and azeri lack negative concord item but we put forward a claim in the contrary. our purpose is to prove the existence of nci in azeri turkic. this paper includes an introduction to negative markers and spec...

When people are cued to forget previously studied irrelevant information and study new information instead, such cuing typically leads to forgetting of the precue information. But what do people forget if, before the forget cue is provided, both irrelevant and relevant information have been encoded? Using relatively short item lists, we examined in a series of three experiments whether particip...